Reluctant warrior
By: Michael C. Hodgins.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fawcett Columbine
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Hodgins, Michael C.; United States. Marine Corps. Recon Battalion, 1st -- History.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Regimental histories -- United States.; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Reconnaissance operations, American.
Description: By the spring of 1970, politicians had determined the outcome of the war in Vietnam. In I Corps - northern South Vietnam - the Marines of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1st Marine Division. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1st RECON Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader during Drumright's reign. In powerful, graphic prose, Hodgins chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in.

Myriad combat situations, both traumatic and poignant, while capturing the essence of tactical decisions and the self-doubt that accompanies them. From hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined-arms ambush, Mike Hodgins takes the reader step-by-step through the "troop-leading process" and the numerous anxious, at times fearsome, events that process inevitably involves in war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-325) and index.